Word: annelies
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...many as 33 depending on the final tallies in Maryland and Alaska), the first time they have had a majority since 1970. While keeping every Republican-held governorship, the G.O.P. gained seven states in open races and ousted four sitting Democrats, including the party's sharpest tongue, Ann Richards of Texas, and its smoothest, Cuomo, who couldn't talk voters into forgetting New York's high taxes. To the great advantage of the next G.O.P. presidential candidate, seven of the eight largest states will be run by a Republican...
...book The Best of Enemies and the film An Unlikely Friendship; in Durham, N.C. The cause of the shift: a 1971 community forum on violence as Durham tried to integrate its schools. Over 10 days of talks, he became so close to his adversary and co-chair, desegregationist Ann Atwater, that he denounced the Klan and joined her efforts...
...acute that some even talk of quitting. But for the most part, they keep their complaints from employers, who, although attuned to their minority and female constituents, remain largely in the dark about those who happen to be both. A new study written by noted academics Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Cornel West and Carolyn Buck Luce and sponsored by the nonprofit Center for Work-Life Policy suggests that companies are generally unaware of hidden biases connected to the traditional white corporate world. The study raises a broader, difficult question that corporations are only beginning to deal with: As minority employees rise...
...zealot at all," says Paul Fishman, a Democrat and attorney from New York City, who worked under Alito at the U.S. Attorney's office in New Jersey, when Alito strove to put away corrupt politicians and drug dealers--all while wooing his future wife Martha-Ann, a research librarian in the same office. (The couple have two children, a son, 19, and a daughter...
...discuss the challenges for public health around the world--and why it is in the interest of Americans to care. The TIME Global Health Summit, whose participants included Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Kofi Annan, Madeleine Albright, Rick Warren, Ted Turner, Paul Wolfowitz of the World Bank and UNICEF's Ann Veneman, reflected what we try to do in the magazine, which is to cover stories that are shaping our future but don't always attract big, blaring headlines. Some of the disease fighters we profiled in last week's issue, "How to Save a Life," attended the meeting...